Apparatus for the treatment of peat fiber manufacturing half-stuff.



No. 771,202. PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1904 0. ESSBR. APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PEAT FIBER FOR MANUFACTURING HALF-STUFF.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 5, 1904. N0 MODEL.

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APPARATUS FOR THE I 'REATMENT 0F PEAT FIBER FOR MANUFAGTURING HALF-STUFF.

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'No. 771,202. PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN ESSER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO ADOLPH POLLAK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PEAT FIBER FOR MANUFACTURING HALF-STUFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,202, dated September 27, 1904. Application filed February 6, 1904. Serial No. 192,211. (No model.)

To a whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN Essen, works director, a citizen of the Empire of Austria- Hungary, residing at Vienna, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements Relating to Apparatus for-the Treatment of Peat Fiber for the Manufacture of Half-Stuff, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has reference to apparatus for the treatment of peat fiber for the manufacture of half-stuff of the kind described in the specification forming part of Letters Patent of the United States No. 690,363, dated December 31, 1901. The apparatus therein described serves to render peat spread in thin layers suitable for the preparation of halfstuff, owing to the fact that the peat, which is arranged upon a rotating table, is carred under a number of suitably-arranged beaters.

The object of the apparatus described in this patent--that is to say, subjecting peat arranged in thin layers upon a moving support to the action of hammers or beaters-may also be attained by means of the apparatus which forms the subject of the present invention, in which apparatus instead of the rotating table a reciprocating table is provided, against which the hammers or beaters described in the aforesaid prior specification act.

In order that my invention may be readily understood and carried into effect by those skilled in the art to which it appertains, I will now proceed to describe the same and for that purpose make reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of an apparatus embodying the present invention; Fig. 2, a plan of the same, and Fig. 3 is an elevation partly in longitudinal section.

The construction of the apparatus is as follows: Upon the base-plates of the uprights 7, arranged parallel with each other and carrying the beaters p 9, pairs of bearing-rollers b b are arranged, upon which a table 1 rests, this table being caused to reciprocate by means of a gear-wheel (Z, mounted on a shaft 11 and meshing in a rack 0, mounted on the under side of the plate. A rocking movement is imparted to the shaft 11 of the gear-wheel (Z by means of a gear-wheel g, mounted on the middle uprights 7, this wheel meshing with the wheel f on the shaft 11 and being itself caused to rock by the intermediary of a connecting-rod w, suspended from a crank y,which is caused to rotate by the disk 2, the radius of this crank being smaller than that of the point of attachment of the connecting-rod 02 upon the wheel 9. The actuation of the beaters p 9, provided with wooden heads j, guided on the cross-pieces 9 10, and provided with operating-tappets a, is effected in the same manner 'as described in the aforesaid prior specification by means of the rotating cams 0, which are mounted on the shafts o w, superposed in the bearings 8, the lower shafts to driving the higher shafts o by the intermediary of the train of gear-wheels s t. One of the lower shafts w is driven directly by the driving-pulley (shown upon the center one of said shafts in Fig. 2) and transmits its movement to the other shafts w by means of a shaft 12, running along the whole of the stamping apparatus and of bevel gear-wheels i h.

The table, which in order to prevent the material from falling off is furnished with a wall on each side, consists, as in the apparatus described in the aforesaid prior specification, of a cast-metal plate, provided with a covering 2, of stone, upon which-the peat to be treated is spread in thin layers.

What I claim is- In an apparatus for the treatment of peat fiber for the manufacture of half-stuff, the

combination with the base-plates, the uprights supported thereon, and boaters carried by said uprights, of a table mounted to reciprocate in a fixed horizontal path beneath said beaters, a rack centrally disposed upon the under side of said table longitudinally thereof a shaft mounted transversely of the table in bearings on said base-plates, a gear-wheel on said shaft meshing with said rack, and rollers in pairs mounted in bearings on said base-plates, and disposed upon opposite sides of said rack, and

upon which rollers said table is directly supment of said connecting-rod upon the large ported, a gear-wheel, 0n the shaft of the firstgear. IQ mentioned gear-wheel, a large gear-wheel In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my meshing therewith, a disk, a crank connected signature in presence of two witnesses.

with the shaft of said disk, and a connecting- CHRISTIAN ESSER. rod carried by said crank and connected with WVitnesses: said large gear-wheel, the radius of said crank FRIEDRICH BINVER,

being less than that of the point of attach- ALVESTO S. HoeUE. 

